Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

SR No.: 001005
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 507
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 11 MB

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MARRIAGES OF SAMBA AND PRADYUMNA
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mother and said, Take this necklace with desire for a son equal to me. Rukmini said: With you as a son, my purpose is accomplished. Moreover, a woman never bears a jewel a second time. Which one of the co-wives, to whom I may give a son, is dear to you?" asked by Pradyumna again, Rukmini said: "In the past Jambavati was sympathetic with me suffering from separation from you, son. Let the son equal to you be hers." With Pradyumna's approval she summoned Jambavat's daughter and Pradyumna made her look like Bhāmā by means of a magic art. She was sent by Rukmini, who explained to her, to Hari's house. She went at evening and was enjoyed joyfully by him, after he had given her the necklace.
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Just then the god Kaiṭabha fell from Mahāśukra and entered Jambavati's womb, indicated by the dream of a lion. Then Jambavati, delighted, went to her own house and Satyabhāmā came, seeking the bed-chamber in Kṛṣṇa's house. Seeing her, Kṛṣṇa thought: "Oh! Women are never satisfied in pleasure. Just now she has gone and she comes again in haste. Or, have I been tricked by some one who assumed Satya's form?" With the idea, " May she not be embarrassed," he dallied with her.
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Raukmineya learned that it was the time of her dalliance and had a drum beaten which caused terror to all of Viṣṇu's people. Hari, disturbed, asked, By whom was this drum beaten?" and his attendants told him, "It was beaten by Raukmineya. Hari smiled and thought: 'Now Bhāmā has certainly been tricked by him. Indeed, a son of a co-wife is like ten co-wives. Bhāmā's son will be somewhat timid because of pleasure with fear. Surely what must be does not happen otherwise.
At dawn Janardana went to Rukmini's house and saw Jambavat's daughter ornamented with the divine necklace. Jambavati said to Hari looking at her with motionless eyes, "Why do you look so, master? I, here, am your wife. Vişņu said, "Where did you get this divine necklace, queen?”